Category: “Personal Productivity”

Here I leave you something to think about this holidays…

In this article I am not going to explain how you should make your decisions (who the hell am I?). Simply, I will present you a set of facts and theories about the decision making process. The idea is that if you know the process by which you make your own decisions, you will be able to make them more effectively. Also, let it be said, knowing how the human’s mind works in this type of processing also gives you the ability to influence others’ decisions (if you work in advertising, marketing or sales, this should be of your interest.)

A few months ago, a Hyperink Press editor got in touch with me and offered me to do a beautiful ebook based on the best content from this blog. Apparently, they had thoroughly researched the blog, and both the subjects and the quality of our articles fit pretty well in their company’s mission: to bring readers blogs with good content—often difficult to find—so they can learn about a topic in a fun and fast way.

Productivity has changed my life. Not the type of productivity understood as a series of tricks that let you do some things with less effort and buy some more time, but productivity understood as a philosophy of life. Let me explain…

You have probably heard of the famous experiment that was conducted a few decades ago in a laboratory at Stanford University: a few children were left alone in a room and were told that they could have a candy at that time or wait until the experimenter came back, in which case they could have two candies. The experiment did not end there, since the social and cognitive skills of these children were tested some years later. The result was that, at least academically, the ones who had delayed instant gratification obtained better scores and were more popular than those who had not.